Govt clears Rs 91 cr wage hike for medical insitute faculties

The proposal, which will cost Rs 91.60 crore to the exchequer, was cleared by a Union cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, official sources said here.

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PTI

New Delhi

December 29, 2009

UPDATED: December 29, 2009 20:46 IST

In a New Year bonanza, the government today cleared a proposal for a wage hike for faculty members of premier medical institues like AIIMS and PGI Chandigarh bringing them at par with their counterparts in IITs and IIMs.

The proposal, which will cost Rs 91.60 crore to the exchequer, was cleared by a Union cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, official sources said here.

The new pay-scale will be implemented with retrospective effect from January one, 2006 while the allowance will be paid effective from September one, 2008, they said.

Faculties of two more institutes Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, and Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, will also get Sixth Pay Commission benefits as per the UGC scale.

Faculty of these institutes had refused to accept the revised emoluments as per Sixth Pay Commission recommendations demanding a pay hike at par with those in the IIMs and IITs.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had carried out a study of the problems of the faculty members before making a note to the Union Cabinet.